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Commissioners approve new relief‑factor policy for jail staffing over dissent about comp time
Summary
The court voted 2–1 to adopt a new policy for calculating the relief factor used to staff the Collin County detention facility. County staff treated comp time as equivalent to overtime for the calculation; Sheriff Skinner argued comp time should be included in the net‑annual working hours and said accrued comp time totals about 49,000 hours.
Collin County Commissioners on March 31, 2025, voted 2–1 to adopt a new policy, proposed by Administrative Services, that standardizes how net annual working hours are calculated for detention officers and establishes a relief factor for fiscal year 2026.
The issue: County Administrator Eun Kim told the court the working group — which included county administrative services, the sheriff’s office and human resources — proposed a relief‑factor methodology intended to calculate how many officers are needed to keep the jail staffed. The county presented a projected relief factor of about 4.97 for detention officers on 12‑hour shifts under the new calculation.
Majority view and vote: Commissioners moved and seconded approval of the policy, and the motion carried 2–1.
Dissent and why it mattered:…
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